Aww, Jimmy Cardigan. Better known as Jimmy Carter, our 39th President. During his administration he was seen on television promoting energy saving practices by telling the people to turn down their thermostat and put on a sweater. Well that went over as well as a fart in church. The people viewed it as Big Brother taking over and telling them what to do. How dare the president recommend that we save some money on our electricity bill. How dare he!....Wait...what?
Well, here I go again, touting my Seattle self, telling you that Jimmy Cardigan is alive and well in our house. Although now that we are in Florida and you really can only get so naked to cool off, but we do not allow our air conditioner to go below 76 degrees F. Not only is it good to save energy, it makes for a much happier bank account!
One question has been raised, is energy too expensive? Are you kidding?!? No way! At about 11 cents per kWh, the United States is significantly below the rest of the world in energy cost. Denmark reports appropriately 40 US Cents per kWk and Tonga is approaching 58 cents. Put my current household consumption in Denmark and my monthly bill would be around 900 dollars per month.
We were to look at what energy source has the most upside potential. In my opinion, after doing some legwork, bio-fuel such as Algae (Algenol) has the best potential. Based on land usage alone, it would only take 1-2% of the current agricultural land used to produce enough Angenol to supply us at our current fuel consumption rate. That is compared to the approximate 120% needed for corn based bio-fuel alone.
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